Philoctetes

Philoctetes

Sophocles. tr. Cambridge

London: Hall, 1844. The Tragedies of Sophocles, in English prose, a new literal translation, with copious notes. pp. 297-345

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1844

"The Countess did not quote Sophocles, but she said to herself, 'Only this little bit of pretence and vanity, and then I will be quite good, and make myself quite safe for another world.'" Referenced in "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton." From the Cabinet Edition of Scenes of Clerical Life, Vol. 1, William Blackwood and Sons, 1878 (1858), p. 64.

Sophocles. tr. Cambridge, Philoctetes, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57439

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